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Christmas Holiday Geekery 2008

This Christmas season I used the downtime supplied by most of my peers taking two weeks off of work (can you say downturn?) to get around to a number of highly geeky personal projects on my residence’s IT network.  Aided by the web (and knowing which...

Mats Sundin: Summer Rental

Welcome, Mats Sundin, to Vancouver.  I will enjoy the six months you spend in our fair city, but I won’t expect to see you for much long afterward.  In the meantime, I hope that too many deckchairs aren’t reordered to make room for you, because all of...

Remembering William Markle ‘Mark’ Pecover

We all have our stories of a family’s sacrifice in wars.  Mine is not very much different.  In 1914, the dominion of Canada was prevailed upon to ship nearly ten percent of its population across the Atlantic to pursue a fruitless and unnecessary war.  Ten...

In BusinessWeek: “Who killed the VoIP revolution?”

Last week I penned a column for GigaOm which has been picked up by BusinessWeek.  Here’s an excerpt: “VoIP is dead,” Skype General Manager of Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke...

Ian Rides the Canucks’ Rickety Roller Coaster w/ Dave

Last week I stopped by the new Irish Heather for a fireside chat about all things hockey with DaveO, ostensibly to promote my team management service, RosterBot. I really enjoyed the chat, and DaveO got me a wee bit tipsy on Kilt Lifter ale and elicited my opinions on...